Anti-Corruption campaigner and the Chief Crusader of the Crusaders Against Corruption, Mr. Emmanuel Wilson Jnr has said that issues surrounding Aisha Huang leaving Ghana and her subsequent arrest after her return has exposed the country’s vulnerability in terms of security.
Speaking on Ebaanosen, a Plan-B FM late afternoon current affairs show, the anti-corruption campaigner noted that every thing about what is happening now is a clear indication that there is a lot of vulnerability with Ghana’s weak security and added that it needs to be looked at again by person mandated to do so.
Ghanaians recently woke up to the news of the arrest of ‘Galamsey Queen’, Aisha Huang by the police in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Her arrest has caught public attention with a lot of people questioning how she fled this country in the first place after an earlier arrest in the year 2018.
The Accra Circuit Court 9, presided over by His Honour Samuel Bright Acquah, is reported to have remanded her into lawful custody to pave way for further investigation into her alleged involvement activities related to illegal mining as well as sale and purchase of minerals in the Ashanti and Greater Accra regions respectively.
According to Emmanuel Wilson, the fact that Aisha Huang was able to allegedly sneak into Ghana early this year through Togois worrying. He pointed out that this is an individual who was arrested for engaging in illegal mining but was made to go off the hook when she should have been prosecuted.
He continued that further reports indicate that Aisha Huang, aka En Huang, allegedly used a new passport bearing the name Huang Rei Ruixia to apply for a Togo visa before subsequently arriving in Ghana where she was later arrested by the police.
The anti-corruption campaigner pointed that the Ghanaian public is not only shocked but also saddened by the fact that the ‘Galamsey kingpin’ was arrested and expelled from the country in 2018 on a similar crime, has somehow managed to get back into the country. “The ordinary Ghanaian out there is wondering how she managed to come back to Ghana and further wondered how the state security agencies failed to prevent her from getting into the country”, he commented.
He adds that most members of the public are left shocked and have asked questions about how an individual like the ‘Galamsey Queen’, who in this case is, a foreigner, can hold a sovereign nation like Ghana to ransom.
Continuing, he expressed shock at comments made by Aisha Huang’s lawyer, Nkrabea Effah Dartey, a former Deputy Interior Minister in the Kufuor administration, who downplayed the significance of the arrest of the ‘Galamsey Queen’ and added that her arrest should concern every Ghanaian because it shows the dangers posed by the country’s porous borders.
According to him this is no longer a perception held by many but a reality reminding Ghanaians that this means that the country stands the risk of terrorist attacks.
Shifting his attention from the issues of security, Emmanuel Wilson Jnr stated that the country has lost huge sums of money through the sales of illegally mined golds and other minerals which are not accounted for.
“Aisha Huang and her likes have denied Ghana about $6.1 billion as a result of the illegal exports of gold from Ghana to certain countries like Switzerland and United Arab Emirates. You can imagine what this money would done for Ghana if the golds in questions were exported through the right processes?” he pointed out.
Concluding he called for stiffer punishment for Aisha Huang if found guilty by the law court to serve as a deterrent to others who are still or intend to engage in activities related to illegal mining which has not destroyed the country’s water bodies but also farms.
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